Beam quality of a non-ideal atom laser

Details Beam quality of a non-ideal atom laser Beam quality of a non-ideal atom laser

2005-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509281v3

Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 070404 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.070404

We study the propagation of a non-interacting atom laser distorted by the strong lensing effect of the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) from which it is outcoupled. We observe a transverse structure containing caustics that vary with the density within the residing BEC. Using WKB approximation, Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral formalism and ABCD matrices, we are able to describe analytically the atom laser propagation. This allows us to characterize the quality of the non-ideal atom laser beam by a generalized M$^2$ factor defined in analogy to photon lasers. Finally we measure this quality factor for different lensing effects.

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